Trouble Backstairs (1935 film)

Trouble Backstairs
Trouble Backstairs
Directed by	Veit Harlan
Written by	Maximilian Böttcher (play); Carl Junghans; Reinhold Meißner;
Produced by	Walter von Ercert; Kurt Peters;
Starring	Henny Porten; Else Elster; Rotraut Richter; Gaston Briese;
Cinematography	Bruno Mondi
Edited by	Ludolf Grisebach
Music by	Fritz Domina; Will Meisel;
Production; company	A.B.C.-Film
Distributed by	NDLS
Release date	20 December 1935;
Running time	83 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

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Trouble Backstairs (German: Krach im Hinterhaus) is a 1935 German romantic comedy film directed by Veit Harlan and starring Henny Porten, Else Elster and Rotraut Richter. It marked the directoral debut of Harlan, who had previously worked as an actor, and quickly developed as a leading director of Nazi Germany.^[1] It was based on a play by Maximilian Böttcher, and was remade in 1949.

It was shot at the Terra Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Bruno Lutz and Hermann Warm

Cast

Henny Porten as Frau Witwe Bock
Else Elster as Ilse Bock, ihre Tochter
Rotraut Richter as Edeltraut Panse
Gaston Briese as Postoberschaffner Hermann Briese
Ilse Fürstenberg as Frau Irma Schulze
Hilde Sessak as Paula Schulze, Tochter
Reinhold Bernt as August Krüger, Hausverwalter
Gerda Kuffner as Malchen Krüger, seine Frau
Gerhard Bienert as Bäckermeister Gustav Kluge
Paul Mederow as Justizrat Dr. Horn
Berthold Ebbecke as Assessor Dr. Erich Horn, sein Sohn
Eduard von Winterstein as Amtsgerichtsrat Müller
Helmut Weiss as Prosecutor
Carl Jönsson as Vater Panse
Erich Kestin as Mann im Zuschauerraum
Meta Jäger as Frau Döring
Hanni Weisse as 1. Frau im Zuschauerraum
Albrecht Bethge as Gerichtsdiener
Otto Albrecht as Tenor
Wera Schultz as 1. Verkäuferin
Hilde Maris as 2. Verkäuferin
Jutta Sabo as 2. Frau im Zuschauerraum
Erika von Schaper as 3. Verkäuferin

References

^ Wistrich p.97

Bibliography

Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
Klaus, Ulrich J. Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1935. Klaus-Archiv, 1988.
Wistrich, Robert S. Who's Who in Nazi Germany. Routledge, 2013.

External links

Trouble Backstairs at IMDb

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[1] Wistrich p.97

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